WEBVTT - S01 Episode 5 Extra: Can You Hear What I Hear

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Unexplained Extra with me Richard McClane smith. For

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<v Speaker 1>the weeks in between episodes, we look at the stories that,

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<v Speaker 1>for one reason or other, didn't make it into the show.

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<v Speaker 1>In last week's episode, What Hides Beneath, we looked at

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<v Speaker 1>the infamous K two one nine incident and wandered at

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<v Speaker 1>the many mysteries of the vast ocean deep. Some believe

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<v Speaker 1>a mysterious underwater sound known as a quacker may hold

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<v Speaker 1>the key to discovering what happened to the ill fated

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<v Speaker 1>nuclear submarine. Thought to be the call of a large,

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<v Speaker 1>undiscovered sea creature, or even a submersible alien spacecraft, the

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<v Speaker 1>quacker is fast becoming a regular fixture in modern maritime folklore,

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<v Speaker 1>but you may not be surprised to hear it is

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<v Speaker 1>only one of many strange sounds to have been recorded

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<v Speaker 1>from the depths of the planet's oceans, and there is

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<v Speaker 1>one sound in particular that has given rise to some

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<v Speaker 1>of the most terrifying theories around. Picked up by hydrophones

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<v Speaker 1>deep in the Pacific, the sound, known as the Blue

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<v Speaker 1>may yet prove the most extraordinary of them all. As

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<v Speaker 1>the world slipped from the waking horrors of the Second

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<v Speaker 1>World War into the murkier dimensions of the Cold War,

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<v Speaker 1>the United States Navy were looking for the next opportunity

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<v Speaker 1>to gain the upper hand. As a result, the Committee

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<v Speaker 1>for Undersea Warfare was established in nineteen forty nine, with

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<v Speaker 1>its primary objective to neutralize any possible underwater threat. Knowing

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<v Speaker 1>that sound travels more than four times faster and further

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<v Speaker 1>in water than it does in air, the solution was simple.

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<v Speaker 1>A monitoring system was created whereby a vast array of

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<v Speaker 1>underwater microphones dotted about the North Atlantic would be trained

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<v Speaker 1>to pick up the tell tale low frequency hum of

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<v Speaker 1>a submarine. The system was an unmitigated success, but what

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<v Speaker 1>they hadn't planned for with the extraordinary array of sounds

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<v Speaker 1>that didn't match those of a submarine or in fact

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<v Speaker 1>anything that had been heard before. After the establishment of

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<v Speaker 1>the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also known as NOAH

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<v Speaker 1>in nineteen seventy, the Navy's hydrophones were co opted into

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<v Speaker 1>a vast government research program. Over the years, the program,

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<v Speaker 1>which focuses on the conditions of the ocean and the

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<v Speaker 1>atmosphere of the Earth, has recorded many incredible sounds from

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<v Speaker 1>the communication of whales to the ominous rumbles of volcanic tremors. However,

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<v Speaker 1>in nineteen ninety seven, a set of microphones from the

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<v Speaker 1>Equatorial Pacific Ocean region detected a sound that was like

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<v Speaker 1>no other recorded before, picked up just west of the

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<v Speaker 1>southern tip of South America. Here is the recording of

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<v Speaker 1>the sound, sped up by sixteen times to make it

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<v Speaker 1>more audible. Noah scientist doctor Christopher Fox was under no

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<v Speaker 1>illusions about the origins of such a sound, primarily that

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<v Speaker 1>it was not man made, but also that it was

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<v Speaker 1>organic in nature, possibly even that of an animal. The

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<v Speaker 1>suggestion was staggering. If the sound was indeed animal in nature,

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<v Speaker 1>it would belong to a creature the likes of which

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<v Speaker 1>we have never seen before, With the sound being several

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<v Speaker 1>times louder than any marine creature previously recorded, whatever was

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<v Speaker 1>making it would be several times larger than the blue whale. However,

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<v Speaker 1>any question of a huge, unknown sea creature lurking in

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<v Speaker 1>the deep has since been dismissed by Noah and Oregon

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<v Speaker 1>State University seismologist Robert Zayak. Speaking to Wide Magazine in

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<v Speaker 1>two thousand and twelve, he explained the sound was an

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<v Speaker 1>actual fact. The noise created by the cracking and melting

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<v Speaker 1>of sea ice. And yet not everybody has been wholly

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<v Speaker 1>slash Unexplained podcast. Located roughly one thousand miles from the

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<v Speaker 1>source of the Bloop Sound is a region of the

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<v Speaker 1>South Pacific known as the Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility. The

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<v Speaker 1>region is best avoided for those most afraid of the

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<v Speaker 1>murky waters of the Deep, for it is the point

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<v Speaker 1>of the ocean located furthest from any sign of land,

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<v Speaker 1>or at least any land that belongs to the world

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<v Speaker 1>we know. For if you were able to dive under

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<v Speaker 1>the water, delving deeper into the bottomless depths, you might

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<v Speaker 1>find yourself coming upon a strange coast line of mingled

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<v Speaker 1>mud ooze and weedy Cyclopean masonry, which could be nothing

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<v Speaker 1>less than the tangible substance of Earth's supreme terror, otherwise

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<v Speaker 1>known as the Nightmare Corpse City of Real Year. There deeper,

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<v Speaker 1>still imprisoned within the walls of the sunken city, sleeps

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<v Speaker 1>a creature like nothing before seen on this Earth. A

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<v Speaker 1>monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus like

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<v Speaker 1>head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly,

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<v Speaker 1>rubbery looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet,

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<v Speaker 1>and long narrow wings behind Cluloo, one of the great

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<v Speaker 1>old ones. Could this creature, drawn from the darkest corner

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<v Speaker 1>of H. P. Lovecraft's mind, be the true source of

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<v Speaker 1>the mysterious bloop? Some believe so. Perhaps if you listen

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<v Speaker 1>hard enough, you might catch that strange sound hidden in

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<v Speaker 1>the wind, the chant of worshippers huddled together in furthest

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<v Speaker 1>corners of the dark, uttering those unutterable words. While in

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<v Speaker 1>his house at real air, dead Clulo waits dreaming. All

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